Mdou Moctar, "Afrique Victime" from Afrique Victime (out later this month). This guy...he's like the High On Fire of Sahara rock. His shit is just explosive, and the new album is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6CUSa_laj4
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
that Magat Milkitna Dulaa track is sick!
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
Related thread: S&D: the Sahel Sounds label
I'm not so hot on all of this stuff (too many guitars, ha) but Sahel have definitely put out a few things I like an awful lot. Will have a listen to yr youtube recs later as I do want to try out more.
― emil.y, Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
I went through a phase where I was completely obsessed with this album, which was the first gnawa I heardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Qve2jxqNk
This was pre-streaming and pre-everything-is-available-all-the-time, so I wound up searching largely in vain for similar music, since a lot of other "gnawa" records were more in the world music vain and I was being a purist about it. Still think it's an incredible album. I have a harder time getting into Touareg guitar music - it seems like something that would be right in my zone and yet I just don't get excited by it. The marketing schtick used for it in the US is a bit annoying too, but w/e, you can't market a foreign artist in the US without some kind of hook.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 2 May 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link
I have a harder time getting into Touareg guitar music - it seems like something that would be right in my zone and yet I just don't get excited by it.
I've never been as huge a Tinariwen fan as lots of other people; I prefer female vocalists to male, in that style, so Mariem Hassan and Tartit and now Les Filles de Illighadad are my favorites.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 2 May 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
Do/should we think of this as a single record?
https://purplishrecords.bandcamp.com/album/batch-1-family-pr-001-pr-002
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 12:19 (eleven months ago) link
new mdou moctar is just holy shit astonishing
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 23:53 (eight months ago) link
like what??!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z67lqykI4nc
i was away last time they toured but psyched to have tickets for the upcoming tour. this is such a great record.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:03 (eight months ago) link
Oh okay, this stuff is sick. Picked up mdou moctar's blue stage sessions and lord almighty can the man shred. I don't even particularly care for shredding; and yet!
― H.P, Friday, 29 November 2024 07:42 (one month ago) link